LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Monday.
Wellington, Monday. Thr Agent-General has cabled that he has two offers and expects a third for making and laying a cable between Australia and New Zealand along the existing route. The lowest tender is under £150,000. The intelligence has been cabled to the Post-master-General of New South Wales, with an enquiry if he would be prepared to entertain it. The Cable Company received for carriage of messages from New Zealand to Australia on account of the New Zealand Australian cable, irrespective of payments for transmission beyond Australia during 18S5, £10,600, and probably an equal amount for the a«e of the cable from Auxtralift to New Zealand, besides » iub«dy of £7,500.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2120, 9 February 1886, Page 2
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118LATEST WELLINGTON NEWS. [BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Monday. Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2120, 9 February 1886, Page 2
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